The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-07

of the some $50 republicans that their
places may be filed by good and patient
democrats. There are over 2, 400 of
these Offices within the gift Of the
president, and the fact that all except
$50 are filed by sturdy democrats makes
it looks as If President Cleveland IS
pretty good democrat, no matter what
has been charged to the contrary.
The interstate commerce commits
siOners are here and have organized by
electing Judge Cooley chairman. The
first thing they did after assembling in
our snoW-enveloped city, after paying
their respects to the chief executive,
was to call upon the secretary Of the in
terror and be sworn into Office. The
comptroller of the treasury has ruled
that no officer of the government can
draw pay for the ONCE to which he IS
appointed until he takes the prescribed
| oath to support the constitution OF the
1 United States, and so the commission
ers draw pay from last Thursday, and
not from the time of their appointment.
Many people are asking whether the
commissioners will have to pay their
railroad fare out of their salaries. or
| will have it paid out of the appropria-
ton for the running expenses of the
commission. The question is an i'm
pOrtant one, as the commissioners viii
have much. travelling to do, and the
| railway fare would be pretty big item
/ to take from the 81, 500 year salary.
| The best opinion seems to be that it
will be paid out of the appropriation
| for the expenses of the Office.
Commissioner of Agriculture Col
man has just returned from Louisiana,
and is delighted with his reception
there and with the prospects of an in
| crease in the yield of sugar. lie says
that he never knew what southern hos
pitality was until his trip south. He
Was dined and Wined from the time he
entered the boundaries of the Sunny
South until he left them on his return
home. He says that if he is as success
| full as he expects to be in the expert
ments conducted under his direction.
| the sugar trade of the country VIII be
revolutionized, and there will be saf-
| ing of 40 per cent. by the new diffusion
process. When that day comes we
may expect to have not more than ten
| per cent of adulteration in our sugar,
and there will be no necessity of fight
ing for the annexation of Cuba.
There has been a very heavy dis
charge in the government printing Of
] nee this week, necessitated partly by
the reductions of work since the adj
| iournment of congress and partly to
make room for appointments. The dis
charges would have been made earlier
but for the fact that the employees have
been paid monthly owing to peculiar
wording of the law, which forbids the
government printer drawing money
from the treasury Oftener than once a
month for the pay of the printers, and
as congress did not adjourn until the
4th of March, the force had to be kept
until the end of the month, when the
money could be drawn to pay them.
The discharged men made about three
weeks on Uncle Sam i'll that way.
Hereafter, under an arrangement be-
tween the government printer and the
comptroller of the treasury the prin-
tiers will be paid every two weeks.
One day this week five ducks were
found lying dead at the base of the
Washington monument. One of them
was found cut nearly in two as if
cleaved by razor. 1t is supposed that
the early morning being cloudy the
ducks lost their course and blindly
dashed against the monument with
| such force as to be killed, and the one
found cut in two struck the platinum
point on the monument which cut it in
twain. The OrnithOlogical branch of
| the agricultural department has on
record numerous instances of birds
killed by dashing against lighthouses
and has in its museum many rare
species of birds killed III that way and
| forwarded by the lighthouse keepers to
the department. but the above is the first
known instance of birds or fowls being
killed by dashing against the monu-
ment.